I’ve decided to start doing weeknotes again for a while. I think it might help me keep track of what I’ve managed to do in the week, motivate me a bit by making some ideas public, and perhaps even stop me from feeling too overwhelmed by all the things I have taken on. This week [...]

Things are moving fast in technology, and if we didn’t see something happen it is completely socially acceptable to choose to pretend it didn’t happen at all. Alternatively, we can acknowledge that it did happen, accept that the fact it happened might be important, and make a small amount of effort to engage with it. [...]

I’ve had quite an amazing year, really. It started in Hertfordshire on a payroll, in my flat with fireworks on the TV – and it’ll end in Yorkshire, as a freelancer, in my house, with my dog. In February, I hosted my first proper do, “The Event” – actually two London-based events all about the end [...]

This is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. People don’t know what to do with women our age. Early thirties. Not quite full-blown middle age, but certainly no longer “studenty”. You can “look good” for 40, but it seems strange to compliment someone for being well preserved when their [...]

* Update Nov 26: I see The Guardian have talked about my talk.  ** Update Nov 30. An article has appeared on Yahoo News. I gave the journalist some quotes, however some details in the piece are incorrect. I have never travelled anywhere specifically to get a picture of a till, let alone thousands of miles ! As [...]

I was asked to write a fifteen minute intro to De Montfort University‘s Computer Art Pioneers celebration, “Making Art By Writing Code”, organised by Sheffield’s Site Gallery, which I chaired this weekend. The all-day event took the form of a series of conversations between four original algorithm artists and four younger members of the community, followed by [...]

Talks, events, conferences. We live in a golden era for public speaking. I’m convinced this is a very recent thing. I can remember a time when the only speakers you ever only came across were trying to sell you things. Hitler was a great public speaker. But now it’s everywhere, preaching as mainstream communication, pitching [...]

This is a transcript of the talk I gave yesterday at the Improving Reality conference at the Dome theatre in Brighton. It was filmed as well, so if you don’t want to spoil it you can wait for the film of the talk, and the panel discussion which I took part in afterwards with Joanne [...]

I was asked to write something about Making Things Fast recently – here’s a version of what I wrote. I’m still happy to do this as a talk, so long as people find it helpful. I even pitched it as a book but no one was interested.

I meet a lot of interesting people. It’s my favourite thing to do, and it’s how I work best. But in general, I don’t even like people! At least not more than animals, say, or as an alternative to living out the rest of my days alone on a barren radiation-blasted planet with only a [...]